JPH10124028A - Character pattern forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the time required for character formation and to form characters having good quality by inputting information on the positions and sizes of elements which are the constitution elements for the characters at the time of character formation, thereby automatically forming the necessary characters. SOLUTION: The newly formed characters are expressed as simple straight line data as the skeleton of the characters on an editor screen and respective segments are inputted as P1-P2, P3-P4,... in an element information input means. Next, the element table of a selection screen for selection to respective pieces of the segment data of the element information input means from an element parts memory section is displayed by an element selecting means. The data is then subjected to automatic expansion and contraction according to the sizes (lengths) of the segments of the element information and the sizes of the element parts are adjusted by an element expanding and contracting means. The respective segments of the elements are successively arranged in accordance with the positions of the element information of the input means in an element synthesizing means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character pattern forming device, and more particularly to a character pattern forming device for forming a character pattern in an outline method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, outline type character pattern creation generally involves creating a handwritten character pattern called an original character, inputting it with a scanner, and correcting and creating contour shape data with a character creation editor. It is a target. The man-hours required for this are enormous.

A Japanese character set used in a personal computer or the like has a character set of kanji codes for information exchange defined by Japanese Industrial Standards as a basis. But,
When a user creates a document, kanji such as a personal name, a place name, and an old kanji that are not in the character set of the kanji code for information exchange may be required. In that case, the user will use the Gaiji character creation tool, but the kanji will be designed from the beginning of each stroke, and it is extremely difficult without kanji design knowledge, and the creation time is extremely long. That would be.

[0004] As a conventional method of creating characters, there is, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-72013. This technology decomposes kanji into patterns that are the components, registers them in advance, calls the component patterns as needed, creates character patterns by combining them on the screen,
This character pattern or a character pattern obtained by correcting a part of the character pattern is registered. In this method, the shape of the decomposed pattern is registered as a decomposed pattern of a certain unitary shape such as partial or side-by-side to improve the efficiency of character creation.

[0005]

A first problem of the above-mentioned prior art is that the character quality is poor.

The reason is that the size of the decomposed pattern does not match because a new kanji is created by combining patterns decomposed in a shape such as partial and side.

[0007] The second problem is that it is very difficult to balance characters when creating kanji in a combination of bias and side.

[0008] The reason is that if the selected partial and lateral sizes do not match the size of each part of the required kanji,
It is necessary to correct the character pattern or a part thereof, but it is very difficult to balance the characters without knowledge of the character design.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for automatically creating a required character by inputting information on the position and size of an element which is a component of the character when creating the character. It is an object of the present invention to reduce the required work time and to create a high-quality character.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a character pattern forming apparatus employing an outline method, comprising: an element information inputting means for inputting a position and a size of a character element as element information; An element part storage unit that disassembles a kanji into elements as constituent elements and registers it as a part pattern, and an element selection unit that selects a part pattern corresponding to the element information input by the element information input unit from the element part storage unit Element expansion / contraction processing means for adjusting the size of the selected component pattern based on the size of the element information to create an adjustment element; element synthesis processing means for sequentially arranging the adjustment elements; No overlapping part And a contour processing unit for the processing of Sutame.

[0011] A second character pattern creating apparatus according to the present invention comprises:
A first character pattern creating apparatus, wherein information on elements constituting a character is input as straight line data corresponding to a skeleton on an editor screen for creating a pattern, and a coordinate position of a line segment of the input straight line data Having the element information input means for taking in the position information of the element based on the above, and taking in the size information based on the coordinate value difference between the start point and the end point of the straight line data or the size of the rectangle surrounding the straight line data. It is characterized by.

A third character pattern creating device according to the present invention comprises:
A first character pattern creating apparatus, wherein the size of the part pattern is enlarged / reduced and expanded / contracted based on the size information of element information with respect to the part pattern selected by the element selecting means, and the size is adjusted. And an element expansion / contraction processing unit for creating the adjustment element.

[0013]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the character pattern creating apparatus of the present invention inputs a skeleton of a character as a straight line, and inputs element information of the position and size of the element according to the coordinate position and size of the line segment. An element information input unit 10; an element component storage unit 21 for registering an element as a component pattern in advance; and an element for selecting a component pattern corresponding to the input element information from the element component storage unit 21 using an element table. A selection means 20, an element expansion / contraction processing means 30 for expanding / contracting the size of the selected element based on the element information, and an element expansion / contraction processing means 30 for sequentially adjusting the size of the selected element based on the position of the element information; Element synthesis processing means 40 for arranging and synthesizing A contour processing unit 50 for processing the overlapping portion of each element into one outline shape outline data by a synthesis process, an editing unit 60 for adjusting the created character shape, and a character pattern storage for registering the created character data. And a unit 70.

The element information input means 10 is for inputting information of elements constituting characters as straight line data corresponding to a skeleton on an editor screen for creating a pattern, and based on the coordinate position of the input straight line data. The position information of the element is created, and the size information is created based on the coordinate value difference between the start point and the end point of the straight line data or the size of the rectangle surrounding the straight line data. The element part storage unit 21 previously stores, as outline data, a part pattern obtained by decomposing an element pattern, which is a kanji component, into individual parts. Element selection means 20
Selects a component pattern registered in the element component storage unit 21 from the element table on the element selection screen with respect to the element information input from the element information input means 10. The element expansion / contraction processing unit 30 adjusts the size of the element component selected by the element selection unit 20 by expanding / reducing and expanding / reducing the size of the element based on the size information of the element information.
The element synthesizing means 40 sequentially arranges the element components whose sizes have been adjusted based on the position information of the element information and synthesizes them as characters. The contour processing means 50
The overlapping part of each element part synthesized as a character is eliminated, and the outline data of one outline shape is processed. The editing means 60 corrects the character outline shape using the function of a character creation editor which is a conventional technique. The character pattern storage unit 70 stores the created character pattern.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an input example of character creation. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of the screen of the element table. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the expansion and contraction processing of the element. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the arrangement after the expansion / contraction processing in element synthesis. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a result after the element combining process. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating contour processing of a pattern obtained by element combination.

First, as shown in FIG. 2, in the element information input means 10, a newly created character is expressed as simple straight line data as a character skeleton on an editor screen, and each line segment is input as P1P2, P3P4. I do.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3, an element table of a selection screen for selecting each line segment data of the element information input unit 10 from the element part storage unit 21 by the element selection unit 20 is displayed. When the horizontal line “1” in FIG. 3A is first selected from the element table on the element selection screen for the line segment P1P2 in FIG. 2, FIG. 3B is displayed as a variation thereof, and an appropriate Select a pattern. The operator determines that the line segment P1P2 corresponds to "A" of "1" and selects the line segment P1P2 using a keyboard or a mouse. In the element table of FIG. 3, the element parts constituting the kanji are roughly classified into more than a dozen types of elements, and variations of the elements are classified and partially illustrated.

Next, the element expansion / contraction means 30 automatically expands / contracts the selected element in accordance with the size (length) of the line segment of the element information input by the element information input means 10, and outputs Adjust the size.

For example, for the line segment P11P12, the element selecting means 20 selects "9" from the element table in FIG. 3 (a) on the selection screen, and selects "B" in FIG. 3 (c) as a variation thereof. And then deform. As shown in FIG. 4, an arbitrary rectangle abcd that determines the size corresponding to the element shape is set in advance in the element part storage unit 21 as attribute information of each element, and each line segment input by the input unit 10 is set. Is expanded and contracted based on the rectangle corresponding to the rectangle a′b′c′d ′ and the size is adjusted. In the case of a horizontal horizontal line or a vertical vertical line such as P1P2, expansion / contraction processing of the element component is performed based on the coordinate value difference between the start point and the end point of the element information.

Next, the element synthesizing means 40 sequentially arranges each line segment of the element whose size has been adjusted by the element expansion / contraction processing means 30 based on the position of the element information of the input means 10. As shown in FIG. 5, the line segment P11P
The line segment b′d ′ transformed in FIG.
1P12. FIG. 6 shows the result of arranging all the elements based on the element information.

Next, as shown in FIG.
At 0, a process is performed to eliminate the overlapping portion of the elements arranged in FIG. 6 to generate complete outline data. The contour processing means calculates the intersection of the overlapping parts of the outlines of the element parts, generates a coordinate point at the intersection, and performs processing for eliminating the overlap by reconstructing the outline data along the input direction.

Next, in the editing means 60, the position of the coordinate point and the shape of the curve are corrected for the generated outline data by the function of the character creation editor as necessary. After correcting the character shape, outline data of the created character is registered in the character storage unit 70.

[0024]

As described above, the first effect of the present invention is that the time required for character creation can be reduced. The reason is that, when creating characters, there is no need for the time required to search for existing and partial characters, and external characters can be created simply by inputting the required character skeleton as simple linear data. It is.

A second effect is that a character having the same quality as that of the inner character can be created without knowledge of the character design. The reason is that by making it possible to design the required characters by inputting simple skeleton information, the character balance can be adjusted at that point and the characters are automatically generated based on the input information. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an input example of character creation.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of a screen image of an element table.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing expansion / contraction processing of an element.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement after expansion / contraction processing in element synthesis.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a result of element synthesis.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a result of performing the contour processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Element information input means 20 Element selection means 21 Element part storage part 30 Element expansion / contraction processing means 40 Element synthesis processing means 50 Outline processing means 60 Editing means 70 Character storage part

Claims (3)

[Claims] An element information input means for inputting the position and size of a character element as element information, and an element in which a kanji is disassembled into constituent elements and registered as a part pattern. A component storage unit; an element selection unit that selects a component pattern corresponding to the element information input by the element information input unit from the element component storage unit; and a size of the selected component pattern in the element information. Element expansion / contraction processing means for adjusting based on the size to create an adjustment element, element synthesis processing means for sequentially arranging the adjustment elements, and contour processing means for performing processing for eliminating a portion where the adjustment elements overlap. Characterized by having Character pattern creation device. 2. The information of an element constituting a character is input as straight line data corresponding to a skeleton on an editor screen for creating a pattern, and based on the coordinate position of the line segment of the input straight line data, The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: the element information input means for taking in positional information and taking in size information based on a coordinate value difference between a start point and an end point of the straight line data or a size of a rectangle surrounding the straight line data. 1. The character pattern creation device according to 1. 3. The adjustment element is created by enlarging / reducing and expanding / contracting the size of the component pattern based on the size information of the element information with respect to the component pattern selected by the element selecting means. 2. The character pattern creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an element expansion / contraction processing unit.